Drinking Water

Drinking water immediately after taking meal is harmful. One should avoid it also when stomach is completely empty. Well water is highly digestive. Cold water is quite injurious to health and especially to the respiratory system. When one drinks it after a hot meal, or after sweat food, or after a hot bath, or after sexual intercourse.

One should make it a appoint to drink water in draught for swallowing it with a single gulp causes al-kabar, a kind of disease causing pain in the liver.

The wisdom of the Prophet of Allah (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) comes to the fore when Anas rz) reports him doing and saying:

“The Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to take three breaths, one after each sip, and used to say that because of this it was more satisfying, healthier, and more thirst-quenching.” Anas (rz) added : “ I also used to take three breaths in the same way.”

“ The Holy Prophet (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade to have a drink in a pause like camels but to take break three times, invoking the Name of Allah when he began and praising Him he paused.

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” (Taking breath means drinking three pauses for breath by removing the mouth from the container)